Senior Mobile Platform Engineer - iOS

Company Description

Here at Gousto, we are on a mission to become the UK's most loved way to eat dinner, and for every meal to leave the planet better off. Gousto is changing how people shop, cook and eat food at home. It’s an incredibly exciting time to join our team - and we’re a friendly bunch!

We’re proud to be one of the fastest-growing companies in the UK. Powered by data and a love of food, we’re a recipe box company that’s disrupting the sector, and we’re passionate about our diverse team and our customers.

All of our people are responsible for the success of Gousto, and we’re passionate about creating an inclusive environment for all to thrive. Our guiding values - Dream, Deliver and Care - show our commitment to innovation, our ambition to hit goals at speed, and our deep respect for the people we work with.

Job Description

Location: Hybrid, London office presence required

Our Foundations Tribe is responsible for improving the developer experience of Product Engineers at Gousto - it is where we build, maintain and innovate on the core aspects of the tech stack. As an iOS Foundations engineer, you'll report to an Engineering Manager and work on both the core of our iOS app and the tools that support it, enabling iOS Product Engineers to deliver value faster.

What technologies will you be working on?

Our iOS app is modularised with each feature team having ownership of their feature modules allowing them to iterate and develop quickly. We build features fully in Swift, using both SwiftUI and UIKit, targeting the 2 latest major versions of iOS, and look to adopt the latest tools and technologies from Apple where appropriate, while minimising dependencies on third-party code. We use continuous integration and ship a new version of the app to the App Store every two weeks. Our customised Mobile CI runs on AWS infrastructure and makes heavy use of Fastlane, Danger, and scripts written in Ruby and Swift.

What will you bring to the role?

To be successful in this role, you will be motivated by improving the productivity of our iOS engineers using a variety of technologies, both in the app codebase itself and the tooling around it. Below is not a box checking exercise and we don’t expect you to meet all of the below to apply, it is more to give you a flavour of what this role entails.

Core Responsibilities:

• Working on both, the core of our apps as well as tooling, allowing product engineers to deliver value faster and the capability to scale
• Support other engineers to learn and grow through coaching and mentoring
• Apply lean methodologies to improve Gousto's processes
• Evolve our software through an iterative approach focusing on delivering impact
• Contribute to our iOS Guild, helping us improve our ways of working and our codebase
• Scaling our Mobile CI Infrastructure to provide quick feedback to engineers
• Good debugging skills with the ability to systematically identify and resolve problems.

Beneficial Experience:

• Familiarity with Fastlane and Danger
• Familiarity with Xcode project configuration and Swift Package Manager
• Familiarity with App Store submission and code signing
• Maintaining continuous integration environments
• Working with a design system
• Familiarity with Shell scripting and Ruby
• Familiarity with cloud services such as AWS
• Deep understanding of Apple’s design principles and interface guidelines
• Familiar with Firebase A/B testing, remote configuration, and push notifications

Who you are: 

• Good listener, open and empathetic to other people’s ideas
• Cooperative and likes to share their thoughts
• Works in a collaborative ways with others
• Self starter who enjoys solving complex problems with new technologies
• Proactive, taking goals and coordinating towards delivering value
• Good understanding of system's architecture, design patterns and testing strategies
• Enjoys working with multiple languages and toolchains, such as Swift, Ruby and Bash
• Maintains a high quality code base through architecture, automated testing and documentation
• Has a preference for solving problems for engineers rather than customers

Additional Information

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Equal Opportunities 

Whether it is creating diversity in our recipes or building new teams, we care about our people and the opportunities they have at Gousto. 

We are committed to equality of opportunity across our organisation. At all levels we promote equality, ensuring our people are consistently treated in a fair and equal manner. 

If you need reasonable adjustments at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.

In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (For example - she/her/hers, he/him/his, they/them/theirs, etc).

If you like what you’ve read about Gousto and want to find out more please click I’m interested below to apply! 

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